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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React

You're reading from   Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React Build modern and scalable full stack applications using Spring Framework 5 and React with Hooks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822361
Length 316 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Backend Programming with Spring Boot FREE CHAPTER
2. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Backend 3. Dependency Injection 4. Using JPA to Create and Access a Database 5. Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot 6. Securing and Testing Your Backend 7. Section 2: Frontend Programming with React
8. Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Frontend 9. Getting Started with React 10. Consuming the REST API with React 11. Useful Third-Party Components for React 12. Section 3: Full Stack Development
13. Setting Up the Frontend for Our Spring Boot RESTful Web Service 14. Adding CRUD Functionalities 15. Styling the Frontend with React Material-UI 16. Testing Your Frontend 17. Securing Your Application 18. Deploying Your Application 19. Best Practices 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the fetch API

With the fetch API, you can make web requests. The idea of the fetch API is similar to traditional XMLHttpRequest, but the fetch API also supports promises, which makes it more straightforward to use. You don't have to install any libraries if you are using fetch.

The fetch API provides a fetch() method that has one mandatory argument, which is the path of the resource you are calling. In the case of a web request, it will be the URL of the service. For a simple GET method call, which returns a JSON response, the syntax is the following. The fetch() method returns a promise that contains the response. You can use the json() method to parse the JSON body from the response:

fetch('http://someapi.com')
.then(response => response.json())
.then(result => console.log(result));
.catch(error => console.error(error))

To use another HTTP method,...

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